Crab Museum

Europe's #1 Crab Museum and a satisfyingly baffling tourist attraction. Honestly, it's quite hard to explain in a description.

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just a reminder our ask box is open for all your Clawsome questions!

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Coconut crabs are technically a kind of hermit crab but they only hermit when they are babies. Imagine a three foot wide crab sticking out of a rubbermaid storage bin tho

I have seen this picture!

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so like, what do you think about the fact that there is a scientific term for not only animals turning into false crabs (carcinization) but also for those fake crabs, which the scientific term is "anomarans"?

We love to say at Crab Museum ‘A.C.R.A.B’ (all crabs really are beautiful) even if some are differently tailed.

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also carcinization is just a case of good branding. Things turn into worms wayyyyyyy more. Ferretization is so real as well, best shape for a small mammalian predator is longgggg.

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hi I live by the Mediterranean sea and I wanna know what sort of crabs/crustaceans live in my area I tried looking into it myself but I didn't learn much : (

the Mediterranean is home to a plethora of crabs that we really can’t sum up your wonderful biodiversity (especially with us being stuck with our British crabs). The only crab we have from the Mediterranean is an invasive blue crab from America. They get picked up in the ballast tanks of ships and pooped out on the other side of the world.

it’s such a problem of trading shore crabs that everywhere has an invasive shore crab. America and china struggle with our green shore crabs, but we struggle with Chinese shore crabs and the Mediterranean struggles with American blue crabs!!!!

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so like, what do you think about the fact that there is a scientific term for not only animals turning into false crabs (carcinization) but also for those fake crabs, which the scientific term is "anomarans"?

We love to say at Crab Museum ‘A.C.R.A.B’ (all crabs really are beautiful) even if some are differently tailed.

[mossbrush]

Drew a silly decorator crab on the bus home from the aquarium

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Blackwater Dive prints available now here! I appreciate any monetary support this month to offset submission fees I paid this week for multiple art opportunities! keep your fingers crossed for me, hopefully you’ll be seeing some art of mine out in the Chicago area again soon :)

take 20% off with code RZXZHAU on my inprnt this month

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official crab post

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Do you think you have the funniest crab joke in the world? Do you dream of holding a trophy above your head to a round of rapturous a-claws? 

Then don't be shellfish and enter the World's Funniest Crab Joke Competition! 

To shell-ebrate International Crab Day on 26th April, Crab Museum and Chump’s Comedy are teaming up to find the greatest crab gag in the entire world. But to do this they need the help of you, the crab loving public! 

Submissions are now open, and the shortlist will run the gauntlet of an expert panel of judges:

Panellists include: Sally Phillips, Harry Hill, Rose Matafeo, Phil Wang, No Such Thing As A Fish podcast, Mike Stirling (Director of Mischief at Beano), Ella Al-Shamahi, Lucy Cooke, and a classroom of kids at Ramsgate Arts Primary School. Plus a mystery judge to be announced soon!

The winner of the inaugural World’s Funniest Crab Joke will be crowned at an award ceremony at Crab Museum, Margate, on International Crab Day (26th April) as part of an evening of comedy, science and, naturally, crabs.

So if you think you might be sat on a clawsome pinchline, stick your funniest crustacean based jokes in our state-of-the-art Google form, above! And please, no lobster jokes, it's 2024.

So what are you waiting for?

These crab jokes aren’t going to write themselves!

Deadline for submissions is the 19th of April!

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i love crabs

They're clawsome!

[containsmoss]

You must choose a crustacean.

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Voting ended onFeb 16, 2023

[burntbagelvibes]

CRABS CRABS CRABS!!!

The final stage of life and a perfectly shape creature.

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why are horseshoe crabs still considered crabs even though they look nothing like a crab, have no pincers of any kind and they have a literal tail. Also are horseshoe crabs more related to a different crustacean than they are to crabs

Brilliant Question! Horseshoe crabs were originally believed to have been crabs until the 1950s, when it was discovered they were more related to spiders.

They do indeed have pincers, called chelicera, but they're the kind of pincers that spiders have just in front of their mouth rather than the claws of a true crab.

Crabs do also technically have tails! They're just very short and hidden under their abdomen. In female crabs this keeps their eggs safe. Their chests also happens to be where they poo from!

As a result of these sort-of similarities (and general human laziness to change things), they still have the common name 'Horseshoe Crab'. However, they aren't considered true crabs anymore, so they are technically frauds...

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my favorite video in the whole wide world

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Fun Animal Facts

Japanese Spider Crabs exist and they are after your left index finger

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perfection is stored in the crab